so there was this guy in the gym . . .
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canadianlbs wrote: »hah. every so often i pick up a kettlebell,
and then i just put the thing down.
That counts as a deadlift then, surely
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kimiuzzell wrote: »canadianlbs wrote: »hah. every so often i pick up a kettlebell,
and then i just put the thing down.
That counts as a deadlift then, surely
LOL! lousy form . . . i use them for farmer's carries though.
today there was a guy on one of the cable pillars while i was doing neg chins. i happened to glance over and he was trimming a fingernail with his teeth. idk if just that would have bothered me - but then he SPAT. spat his fingernail fragment onto the floor, checked the nail and went back to his work.
didn't say anything but i was up there going 'oh no you didn't'. he did.
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i kind of goofed in tonight's lift club bench. scared a few people, i think.
trainer dude has very simple stands with those adjustable supports you slide up and down to get different heights. i always struggle a touch with the two-hole setting as it's a micron too high for me and i lose my back tightness a bit. but i'm all 'me do! off hands!' about taking liftoffs.
so he set it one hole lower instead to have me try that. this brings the top of the support lower too, of course, so he warned me to make sure i didn't overshoot and miss the support completely when i went to re-rack. 'sure,' says me. and i get in there and bench it like beckham.
and then i go to re-rack and i overshoot on the right. mr t like to teh died. he was watching my bar path from the left, so he threw himself at me and caught that end. but then he's pinned because he can't get around behind the bench. and i'm pinned because i've got the other end way back behind my head where i can hold it like that but i can't leverage anything. and luckily it never occurred to me to drop it as my head might still have been in the way.
finally mr squats threw himself across the room and saved both of us. he had to put down his deadlift bar first
very dramatic and kind of a communal heart attack for everyone else. death-by-oops-sorry for me. but now that i'm thinking back on it, i feel like it's kind of a testament to my strength too. i had most of 65 pounds hanging in the air at the full stretch of one shoulder for a handful of seconds, and absolutely no harm was done. we just raised it back up to two holes and i did my work sets with another 8 pounds. 0 -
OMG that sounds terrifying! Good on you for getting back on and doing another set I don't think I would have wanted to. Glad that you weren't injured.0
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OMG that sounds terrifying! Good on you for getting back on and doing another set I don't think I would have wanted to. Glad that you weren't injured.
i really think it scared them more than me. the problem is i only bench every other week on trainer turf, and i'm so used to the full benches with the much taller posts where i usually lift. i have this entire muscle habit of just shoving the bar backwards once i've locked the last rep and letting it crash into the posts before i let it onto the pins. i'm proud of how healthy my shoulders must be these days, if the right one could take a sudden wrench like that and know how to protect itself. really, as soon as we put the posts higher again, there was nothing to be worried about anymore.
if i really scared mr t, he can make me bench in his full rack from now on. i'm not sure what they all think of me, tbh.
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canadianlbs- I'm glad you muscled through it!0
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i had a nice conversation on sunday with a middle-aged iranian man and his young-young daughter, because i left my dl bar for a few minutes and when i got back they were standing near it. said he'd brought her in just to show her around in case she might be interested. we had a nice little exchange about iranian power-lifters, and then i talked to his daughter a little bit too.
she was terribly shy and overwhelmed though, so i didn't try to sell anything. just told her i knew how she felt, and then about how i was scared to even walk past the weight room at first because it all seemed so scary and strange.0 -
Nice Canadianlbs, sounds encouraging.
I had 2 guys that were in the dry sauna the last time I went to the big gym, Sunday night. It was pretty late and the first time others had really been in the sauna at the same time. They were also just in regular clothes despite signs saying swimsuits required. I sat to the side and they just talked away with each other, which was amusing.
Part of the time they talked about cars and a girl the one was seeing. Then they talked about stuff like one guy saying he found a perfect Valentine's gift for the other guy (not the girl he was seeing). Nothing like a little bromance in the sauna, hehehe.
Actually, they talked to me some at the end. Apologized if they were making me uncomfortable, which wasn't really an issue. Then they said how sometimes if there are a lot of people in the sauna they will act all buddy buddy up and it makes people leave. I didn't tell them that I write m/m romance and erotica, though that would have been amusing to mention.
Amusing time and turns out they'd seen the guy that uses the squat rack to stretch as he also uses dry sauna. The guy also wears the same shirt every time that is holey and looking like it might fall apart one of these days. He wasn't there that time, but he has used the sauna at the end of one of the times that I've used it, so know he goes in sometimes when not stretching in squat rack or doing whatever he does in the spin room that requires removing the shirt for when he leaves that room. Interesting guy....0 -
Couple of young bros expressed disappointment that I had a whole 2 sets of squats left. About 5 minutes later I gave them the rack and went to do my deadlifts elsewhere. Watched as one of them didn't use the clips but held the plates on the bar as he squatted. Not sure what that was all about.0
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What is the holding plates when squatting about?
I saw two guys do it last Friday, and today another guy was doing it.
They seem to put the bar ontop of their shoulders, whereas I don't... still, it looks epic.0 -
This thread made me laugh.
My gym is pretty tame and quiet, how I like it. But this Sunday, this guy I had never seen, was bouncing around the gym lifting this, then that...I tried to not pay attention. He had jeans on and wearing those big beats headphones. He would sing loud to himself, yell out 'oh yea!' and my personal favorite, burping while while walking around.
My 6 year old was with me, likes help mommy put the plates on and count them..he was even eyeballing this guy. After this guy burped a couple of times, my child whispers to me, "Mom, why doesn't' he say excuse me?' Love my kid!0 -
Vetticus_3 wrote: »What is the holding plates when squatting about?
I saw two guys do it last Friday, and today another guy was doing it.
They seem to put the bar ontop of their shoulders, whereas I don't... still, it looks epic.
I've never seen this! My arms are too short to reach, so I won't be doing it
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Vetticus_3 wrote: »What is the holding plates when squatting about?
i do it sometimes with plates instead of a kettlebell. just another way of front squatting, to me. never needed to take over a rack to do it though.
not sure about the bar on shoulders. do you mean at the same time as they're holding the plates? that i can not help you with. i don't have enough hands, personally.
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canadianlbs wrote: »
not sure about the bar on shoulders. do you mean at the same time as they're holding the plates? that i can not help you with. i don't have enough hands, personally.
Yes! As in a high shoulder barbell squat - with (the guy on Friday did this) 3x 20kg plates each side (EPIC), no cuff, arms extended across the barbell and hands inside the hand-holdy space on the weight.
These guys were literally holding the plates in place on the barbell. I'm trying to find an image on it... but I've come up short. It's sort of like the wide grip... but beyond that wide grip and into insanity.
I definitely did not mean a squat whilst holding onto a weight. That makes sense. This was a move that was created inside the mind of a mandman/genius.
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wow. i've seen clips of powerlifters squatting with their hands way out there on the plates, but i always heard that's only for people whose shoulder mobility doesn't let them grip close.
according to mark rippetoe, though, doing stuff like that is 'silly'. i see his point about how you're not increasing your safety margin by trusting your grip to a thing that rotates.0 -
Vetticus_3 wrote: »
Yes! As in a high shoulder barbell squat - with (the guy on Friday did this) 3x 20kg plates each side (EPIC), no cuff, arms extended across the barbell and hands inside the hand-holdy space on the weight.
These guys were literally holding the plates in place on the barbell. I'm trying to find an image on it... but I've come up short. It's sort of like the wide grip... but beyond that wide grip and into insanity.
I definitely did not mean a squat whilst holding onto a weight. That makes sense. This was a move that was created inside the mind of a mandman/genius.
This is what I saw too. It was like they were holding the plates on the bar like there were no clips available. But there were clips, because I left them when I gave them the rack.
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Maybe this move was featured in the latest men's health body building weekly magazine.0
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Yesterday I finally saw a guy in the gym working out in jeans and a shirt! I have read stories about this, but had never seen one in the wild before.
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I do KB workouts at home & use a 20 pounder, 12 for crush curls and such. I have dropped to 20 while doing "Around the worlds". And I'm pretty certain that one day, when I'm doing swings, that KB is going to go right through a window.0
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mr squats in my friday club was apologizing to mr t for having (maybe) bled on one of his bars earlier in the week. explains why he thinks it, and then he says 'so anyway, of course you realize that if i did then i just turned it gay.'
there's this pause, people just carrying on with their lives. and then mr michigan suddenly says: "so now it's a gay bar."0 -
Went do a different gym and there was this couple there. The guy couldn't squat or bench with proper form (half-reps) but that didn't stop him "teaching" his girlfriend. On the bench, after he took a set of half-reps, he put her on and "spotted" her by holding the bar the entire time. It was kind of funny to watch. Also, this gym was huge but the weights room was tiny and had 8 benches, 2 squat racks and nowhere to deadlift. It was a different experience altogether. Was glad to get back to my normal gym.0
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two little girls in the gym last time i was in. i usually try to be very solidarity and everything when it's younger women, but these two made it just as hard as some of the very young bro-clusters do.
i get frustrated when people are really clearly treating the gym like an extension of the food court in some mall. i keep telling myself it's not my business, because it kind of isn't. but it IRKS me when people can't even interrupt their bitchy gossiping about someone who isn't there, even while performing a so-called 'squat'.
you're not actually 'lifting' if you're running your mouth the whole time, damn it. get out of the rack and go paint each other's toenails or something . . . somewhere like your own room.0 -
I'm sure this guy didn't realize that he had some, um, flesh bulging sideways out of one of the legs of his shorts while he was seated at one of the machines. At least I hope not, because if he did, that's a whole different "guy in the gym" story. I blushed like a 12-year-old and ran. Reminded me of this infamous photo of a woman with a flesh-colored bike saddle, but he wasn't on a bicycle:
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Couple loudly kissing on the gym floor. Several times throughout their session. Is this ridiculous or is it just me?0
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so i'm gonna say something. i don't see a lot of this woman-coaching-woman-friend pairings in the rec centres, but when i do they are usually pretty horrible. not just clueless about etiquette, but blithe and selfish and oblivious too. so it's not even like they learn from the mistakes that they make as they go.
so today there was a new pair: deadlift barbie and her cabbage patch friend. horrible coaching from barbie, and not just from ignorance. she had beautiful form herself, and she pulled 165 easily while making a persistent point of how 'out of training' she was. when it came to her friend though, she just didn't care. actually watched her pull from six inches in front of her, no set up, no getting tight, nothing, no information, back all rounded . . . and said 'good' while scrolling her phone. urk.
i heard them yattering away post work out in the stretch zone and it turned out the two of them are both wrestlers. sidekick was going on about some fight or match or whatever she'd had recently. and then they both talked about tattoos for the rest of the time.
i see women in the gym. i like most of the women i see in the gym. why are the ones who come in pairs such obnoxious weenies?0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »
Hehe. He did make a bit of noise during deadlifts but I'm down with that. Not such a fan of the lip-smacking PDAs. 0 -
Today I was the only female in the weights room - and it was quite strange.
I had just finished my squats (67.5kg! yay)... and then cooled down with 40kgs (so, 10kgs on each side). In the rack beside be was a big rugby player type guy (who I hadn't seen before). He was sitting up and bench pressing really heavy weights.
So, I took of one 10kg plate - because it was time to move on - but before I could take the other one off... he jumped up from his seat and took it off for me.
I said thanks, and he had this really goofy smile on his face - and muttered that he though I was finished. I said, no, not yet. And he wandered off to the wide press machine but between sets he'd walk almost up to me, and then turn back.
One of the trainers came up and started talking to him about rugby...
But he kept on looking around at what I was doing. Perhaps seeing a girl was a novelty? It was really odd.
In other news, I've realized that I make faces when I lift heavy. I look like an angry Hector "Tio" Salamanca from Breaking Bad.
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